When local prosecutors in northeastern Germany made an announcement about 96-year old defendant Hubert Zafke this week, it appeared like standard procedure. Zafke's dementia, they said, had “reached a severity that the defendant is no longer able, inside and outside the courtroom, to reasonably assess his interests or coherently follow or give testimony.” Those few […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/09/01/german-court-set-to-throw-out-case-against-nazi-guard-as-time-runs-short-for-auschwitz-trials/
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